Now the book is being turned into a docu-series, thought to be told in four one-hour segments, with Pulse Films acquiring the rights to Goodman’s book. Pulse Films previously produced Nick Cave’s One More Time with Feeling, Arcade Fire’s The Reflektor Tapes and Beyonce’s Lemonade.

The series will focus on bands such as The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, with filmmakers promising to forgo the “expected tropes and conventions of music documentaries” in order to “create a work of true cinematic scale that will redefine the scope of the music documentary form.”

Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, who directed LCD Soundsystem’s 2012 Shut Up and Play the Hits film, are on board with the project, and Jaime Neely will produce. Goodman will executive produce alongside Thomas Benski, Sam Bridger and Brian Levy.

“At various points during the six long years it took to bring Meet Me in the Bathroom to life, it occurred to me what an incredible documentary this would make,” Goodman says.

“At the time it seemed like a total fantasy but it now feels like fate that the team behind Shut Up and Play the Hits, the show that gave me the idea to write this book in the first place, would be the ones to bring Meet Me in the Bathroom to the screen.”

Goodman adds: “It’s time to share with everyone else the full view of this weird, beautiful, dirty time capsule I’ve been inhabiting.”